Unseen Moon Landing Video Released

bazzalunatic writes "Digitally remastered footage of the moon landing, including high-quality and brighter images of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder will be shown for the first time ever to the general public at an awards ceremony in Sydney, Australia. The magnetic data tapes seem to have all been lost — erased — by NASA, so all that's left are VHS recordings, which have been restored, giving the best-ever film of the whole moon landing. The publicity over this seems to be pushing NASA into releasing the whole 3-hour recording."

Comments

VHS recordings?

[mcgrew]

There was no Video Home System when the moon landings happened. There was reel to reel tape, and cinescope, but no VHS until 1976.

Re:VHS recordings?

[hcdejong]

The footage we're talking about was originally taken with a slowcan camera, 250 TV lines at 10 fps. That's not "a high definition camera".